Historical Examples. 1  Behind Monet and Debussy the umbrella persisted, with the steady beat of a drum. 2  Debussy's extraordinary music136 may be explained in the same way. 3  Strauss and Debussy are also very different in their methods of composition. 4  Strauss and Debussy are the legitimate fruits of thy evil tree of music!
Banned Books Week was founded in 1982 by prominent First Amendment and library activist Judith Krug. Krug said that the Association of American Publishers contacted her with ideas to bring banned books to the attention of the American public after a slew of books had been banned that year.
Prof. FONER: The ban of 1808 did basically stop the importation of slaves from Africa or from the West Indies. There was some smuggling of slaves. After that, all the way up to the Civil War, the ban was not totally enforced, but it certainly ended what had been before then an open, legal and fairly large slave trade.